Re: Just starting and need help
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Just starting and need help
Margaret Ivey 1/22/02
You should be able to write to the clerk where they died and get their actual death certificates, which have a space for the names of their parents.If you are lucky, one of their children filled out the death certificate and wrote the parent's names.
Then go back to the 1880 and 1890 and 1900 censuses and find that family, verifying that your guy is in the household.Then look for records in whatever counties they were living in.
If you can back it up a generation or two, you can probably get plenty of help on this forum.You might also try Duane Johnson's IVEYTRACKER (look on this forum or RootsWeb's IVIE forum for details.)